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Chapter 5:
Angela's face lit up, when she saw her best friend and Booth approaching. She had been worrying about Brennan... she had taken the afternoon off after her doctor's appointment – which was a strange enough behaviour for her to start with... and then she had not been in her office when Angela had shown up. Very strange, indeed. Angela could easily name the rare occasion when Brennan had been late for work.
Usually a "late for work-Brennan" meant problems of some sort. Problems with a case, problems with her family and so on. Angela could not recall a single occasion, when Brennan had just slept in – as normal people sometimes do – there had always been something up, always a reason for her coming late. And watching Booth and Brennan coming closer, Angela knew that her best friend had something to tell her, news of some sort.
Brennan seemed to be nervous, maybe even upset about something. Booth on the other hand looked a little nervous too, but ...happy? Angela frowned. She was pretty sure she had never seen Booth being happy, when Brennan was upset. Never. She wondered, what could have caused this constellation, but her thoughts were interrupted, when Brennan greeted her: "Morning, Ange. Would you mind coming to my office with me? I...would like to talk to you."
Angela nodded. "Sure, no problem, Sweetie. Hi Booth!" She studied Booth's face for a short moment, but the FBI agent was not paying attention to her at all. He mumbled a distracted: "Morning Angela." But his eyes were fixed on Brennan. "I am going to see Cam now, Bones. Okay?" He winked at her, in an encouraging way and Angela's eyebrows shot upwards. Brennan nodded and gave him a wry smile, then she motioned for Angela to follow her.
When she entered her office, she let out a deep sigh and moved to the wardrobe to hang up her coat. Towards Angela she mumbled: "Close the door , please."
Angela was surprised, but did as she was told. After a moment of silence she asked. "Big secrets ahead?"
Brennan lowered herself into the chair behind her desk and nodded slowly. "You have no idea. Actually part of what I am going to tell you really is a secret... part is not." Her voice sounded odd and again worry rose in Angela.
"Sweetie, you can tell me anything. Your secrets are safe, you know that... Is it something about your family?"
Angela asked gently.
Brennan shook her head, but all of a sudden she stopped her movement and a small smile covered her face. She looked somewhat surprised and her voice was a soft whisper, when she said. "Family... Yes... Yes it's about family." Her smile widened... It was indeed about her family. She had just recognised, that she was going to have her own family. With Booth. She was going to have her own family, somewhere to belong to. Of course her friends were some kind of family too, as Booth had once explained to her. But this was different, this was MORE.
She glanced over to Angela, who looked at her in astonishment and whispered. "MY family." The words sounded wonderful to her.
"Cam?" Booth gently knocked at the door to Dr. Saroyan's office. It was ajar, but he did not want to just...burst in. It would be an odd enough conversation... he might as well try to start it politely.
"Yeah. Come in." Her voice sounded a little distracted and sure enough he found her at her desk, concentrating on some papers.
"Shall I come later?" He asked, not keen on the prospect of having to postpone the conversation, knowing that Brennan was talking to Angela right now... and his relationship to her was going to be public knowledge soon. He owed it to Cam to tell her himself.
"No... just a moment... I need to finish this." Cam answered and scribbled something down... after a few moments, she finally lowered the pen and looked at him. "Did I ever mention that I hate paperwork?"
"Yes... and I usually tell you, that you applied for the wrong job, if you are not happy with paperwork" He smiled a bit.
"Right" She sighed and smiled a little. "What can I do for you, Booth? I am not going to help you out, in case you manoeuvred yourself into an argument with Dr. Brennan again."
He shook his head. "No argument... but it has something to do with her." He sighed and hesitated for a moment, then he gestured towards the chair in front of her desk. "Can I sit down?"
Her eyebrows rose in surprise. "Seeley... what is it? You never knocked before and you never ask before sitting down... Is something wrong with her? She's been to the doctor yesterday and took the afternoon off... that was... unusual."
She watched as his face lit up a little at her words and her confusion deepened.
"No... nothing is wrong, Cam." He answered in a low voice. 'No, not wrong, indeed...' He thought and a tiny smile crept on his face.
"Cam... Bones...and I... " He stopped and cleared his throat. He had no idea how to tell her... he had never been in such a situation before. How are you telling your ex-girlfriend, that you are in love with on of her employees? 'Somebody should write a book about things like that. Some kind of guideline', he thought sarcastically.
"You what? No argument? What then? Wait... Seeley, are you telling me, that you two finally ... " Cam's voice trailed off too. Was he really talking about the same thing she was thinking about?
His brow furrowed a little. 'Finally', he thought, 'finally? Has it been that obvious to everybody?'
"We... I... I love her." He finally blurted out. 'Great, just great... ' he thought 'Very smooth.'
Cam looked surprised for a moment, but then the expression on her face changed to amusement. "I knew that... But... does she know too?"
"You knew?" He breathed, surprised.
"Seeley... It was kind of obvious... All these things you keep doing for her...Don't forget, I've known you for a while now... I knew for some time, that you fell for her. But... does she know?" Cam asked, curiously.
Booth felt a little embarrassed, that Cam had known about his feelings... he had thought he had been hiding it quite well under the "Partner and friends" – coat. He decided to ignore the embarrassment... after all, there were more important things right now.
"She knows now." He answered, not sure how to continue. Should he say, that they were together now... or that she returned the feeling... or...what?
Cam chuckled. "So, Seeley, are you seriously telling me, that you are sitting here like a school boy in the principal's office to tell me you two finally jumped each other?"
"Uhm... yeah?" Booth blushed a little.
She laughed again. "Well... that's good news, isn't it? Maybe you'll argue less now."
"You're not... mad?" He asked, cautiously.
She shook her head and winked at him. "Seeley Booth, don't overestimate yourself. I am SO over you. If she makes you happy and the other way round... I am okay with it. You deserve it... both of you."
He let out the breath he had been holding. "Wow... that's great... thanks, Cam." He sounded genuinely relieved and she shook her head again. "What did you think, Booth... that I was going to fire her, just because she is seeing my ex now? You should really know me better. Now, just for my curiosity: When did you finally ... get together?"
Remembering, that he had a story to stick to, he smiled secretly and answered. "A few weeks now... but we... decided to wait before telling everybody."
Cam nodded thoughtfully. She was a bit surprised, she had not noticed anything before, but she could hardly spend all her time watching Booth and Brennan's progress... so she might just have overlooked the signs.
"And now you are telling people? Why?" She asked.
The question took him aback for a moment, but then he shrugged and gave her a boyish grin: "Secretly holding hands like teenagers is not her thing."
Cam chuckled. "I can imagine that. Usually she is... pretty forward..."
He nodded, glad that her boss – his ex – was taking it that cool. He could only hope his boss would react calmly too. Which reminded him, that he had somewhere to be.
He rose and smiled at Cam: "Well... now that we talked about that... I have to go... My boss needs to know, too." He slowly moved towards the door, but he stopped, when he heard Cam softly say his name. "Seeley?"
He turned around. "Yeah?"
He saw that her face was serious, when she said: "I am happy for you, I really am."
Booth smiled broadly at her. "Thanks, Cam. That means a lot." He waved at her and left her office.
She watched him leave and sighed inwardly. So, another good man was taken.
But she had known, that he had lost his heart to his partner some time ago... it was good to know, that Dr. Brennan was aware of that now... Cam had feared, that one day, her friend – because that was how she was thinking of Booth - was going to get his heart broken by Brennan not recognising his feelings. But now she did not only know, but even return the feelings. And it surely was not going to be just a fling or something. Not between those two.
A sad smile appeared on Dr. Saroyan's face. Maybe, someday she was going to find her other half too. Someday.
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